- Chip: Suppose it doesn't work.
- Noah Daniels: What?
- Chip: The energy source. Suppose it doesn't work. You'd be stuck here for good, wouldn't you?
- Arushka: It's just what your own people had to do when this comet fell, wasn't it? To go on, become something new. Could you be one of us, Noah? A Nomad?
- Arushka: Kwan, tell him the legend.
- Kwan: It was in my parent's parent's time. Legend says it was in the greening known as 2.
- Noah Daniels: 2. And, uh, what did you mean by thundering?
- Kwan: Shaking and a terrible fire. Then, the death of the world followed by years of cold.
- Noah Daniels: Yeah, that's it. The Nemesis Comet. And you say your family survived.
- Kwan: 50 greenings ago, our tribe made a great journey to find Haven, where the grass and trees had started to grow again.
- Noah Daniels: Greenings. And you said your time was...
- Geneva: The 8-5 greening. Yes.
- Noah Daniels: The 85th greening. So if the comet was in the second greening, a greening is a year. So that makes this 2085.
- Arushka: That means nothing to us.
- Noah Daniels: All right, all right. Let's just call this the 8-5 greening and-and leave it at that. The point is that I live in North Col in 2020, so I've jumped ahead... 65 years. 65 greenings.